The Watchman On The Wall

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

GEMS Voting Machines and Fraction Magic

High Alert: the
election can still be rigged

By Jon Rappoport

I'm reposting this
piece because, amazingly, the vote-rigging system it describes has not gotten
widespread attention. The system can be used across the entire US.

As we know, there are
a number of ways to rig an election. Bev Harris, at blackboxvoting.org,
is exploring a specific "cheat sheet" that has vast implications for
the Trump vs. Hillary contest.

It's a vote-counting
system called GEMS.

I urge you to dive
into her multi-part series, Fraction Magic. Here are key Harris quotes. They're
all shockers:

"Our testing [of
GEMS] shows that one vote can be counted 25 times, another only one
one-thousandth of a time, effectively converting some votes to zero."

"This report
summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system,
which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States. The
results of this study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in
each GEMS application which can be used to invisibly, yet radically, alter
election outcomes by pre-setting desired vote percentages to redistribute
votes. This tampering is not visible to election observers, even if they are
standing in the room and watching the computer. Use of the decimalized vote
feature is unlikely to be detected by auditing or canvass procedures, and can
be applied across large jurisdictions in less than 60 seconds."

"GEMS
vote-counting systems are and have been operated under five trade names: Global
Election Systems, Diebold Election Systems, Premier Election Systems, Dominion
Voting Systems, and Election Systems & Software, in addition to a number of
private regional subcontractors. At the time of this writing, this system is
used statewide in Alaska, Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire,
Utah and Vermont, and for counties in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and
Wyoming. It is also used in Canada."

"Instead of '1'
the vote is allowed to be 1/2, or 1+7/8, or any other value that is not a whole
number."

"Weighting a
race [through the use of GEMS] removes the principle of 'one person-one vote'
to allow some votes to be counted as less than one or more than one. Regardless
of what the real votes are, candidates can receive a set percentage of votes.
Results can be controlled. For example, Candidate A can be assigned 44% of the
votes, Candidate B 51%, and Candidate C the rest."

"All evidence
that [rigged] fractional values ever existed [in the GEMS system] can be
removed instantly even from the underlying database using a setting in the GEMS
data tables, in which case even instructing GEMS to show the [rigged] decimals
will fail to reveal they were used."

"Source code:
Instructions to treat votes as decimal values instead of whole numbers [i.e.,
rigging] are inserted multiple times in the GEMS source code itself; thus, this
feature cannot have been created by accident."

A contact who, so
far, apparently wishes to remain anonymous states the following about the
history of the GEMS system:

"The Fractional
vote [rigging] portion traces directly toJeffrey W. Dean, whose wife was primary
stockholder of the company that developed GEMS. He ran the company but was
prohibited from handling money or checks due to a criminal conviction for
computer fraud, for which he spent 4 years in prison. Almost immediately after
being released from prison he was granted intimate access to elections data and
large government contracts for ballot printing and ballot processing."

I see no effort on
the part of the federal government, state governments, or the mainstream press
to investigate the GEMS system or respond to Bev Harris' extensive analysis.

It's not as if media
outlets are unaware of her. Fromshesource.org, here isan
excerpt from her bio:

"Harris has been
referred to as 'the godmother' of the election reform movement. (Boston Globe).
Vanity Fair magazine credits her with founding the movement to reform
electronic voting. Time Magazine calls her book,Black Box Voting, 'the bible'
of electronic voting... Harris's investigations have led some to call her the
'Erin Brockovich of elections.' (Salon.com)...
Harris has supervised five 'hack demonstrations' in the field, using real
voting machines. These have been covered by the Associated Press, the
Washington Post, and in formal reports by the United States General Accounting
Office..."

So far, her analysis
of GEMS seems to be labeled "too hot to handle." Press outlets prefer
to report the slinging of mud from both Presidential candidates' camps.
Meanwhile, the actual results of the coming elections-including Congressional
races-appear to be up for grabs, depending on who controls GEMS.

Update: From what I
understand, each state government appoints a "consultant" to manage
GEMS on election night.